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I am wondering how many posts I can make on Google in a week? First it was this, then this and now this. Some busy people.

FreeTechForTeachers created this short guide to 15 tools and strategies for helping your students (and your colleagues) improve their Internet search results. Have a look.

Beyond Google – 15 Tools and Strategies for Improving Your Web Search Results –

(via DemoGirl)

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In my opinion, some teachers and students need to improve their web searching skills. Have a look at:

Google Web Search – Classroom Lessons and Resources

Web search can be a remarkable research tool for students – and we’ve heard from educators that they could use some help to teach better search skills in their classroom.

The following Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers to help you do just that. The lessons are short, modular and not specific to any discipline so you can mix and match to what best fits the needs of your classroom. Additionally, all lessons come with a companion set of slides (and some with additional resources) to help you guide your in-class discussions.

I also have a previous post on search tips on video here.

Humorous video. So, what is a browser? Go here to find out. Google Chrome? Find out here (or read the comic version by Scott McCloud). Since you are here, you may also wish to check out Opera Unite and take a peak at Google Wave.

Thanks to Shane M. for the video tip.

Google Waves Goodbye to E-Mail, Welcomes Real-Time Communication

Google has set out to rewire the e-mail inbox with a new product called Wave.

Wave is a web-based application that marries multiple forms of communication and collaboration, including chat, mail and wikis, into a unified interface. Everything inside Wave happens in real time: You can even see a comment being made as the person is typing it, character-by-character.

iTunes 8.1 has been released. A new addition is “iTunes DJ”. Imagine the Party Shuffle option but now, people with iPhones can request, and cue up songs remotely to the “DJ” using iTunes.

Read more from MacWorld and  Wired. And,

Google has added a new feature to Google Reader: the ability to comment on shared items. The new feature lets you comment on posts that your Google Reader friends have shared using the RSS feed reader, and they will be able to do the same with your content. [full story here]

Video podcast with Patrick Norton and Matt Cutts will help you quickly recap some useful tips for searching Google more efficiently. You may know a lot of these Google tricks already but refreshing skills once in a while should be fine.
From www.jaindudes.tk

Watch below or here via YouTube.

This is also placed on the “ICT Theories and Info” page on this site.

From the Google Blog:

The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination; The Mansell Collection from London; Dahlstrom glass plates of New York and environs from the 1880s; and the entire works left to the collection from LIFE photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gjon Mili, and Nina Leen. These are just some of the things you’ll see in Google Image Search today.

We’re excited to announce the availability of never-before-seen images from the LIFE photo archive. This effort to bring offline images online was inspired by our mission to organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. This collection of newly-digitized images includes photos and etchings produced and owned by LIFE dating all the way back to the 1750s.

Only a very small percentage of these images have ever been published. The rest have been sitting in dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings, and prints. We’re digitizing them so that everyone can easily experience these fascinating moments in time. Today about 20 percent of the collection is online; during the next few months, we will be adding the entire LIFE archive — about 10 million photos.